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21, at 7:46 a.m.at his home in Montreat. "I'd known about Billy Graham all my life of course, to go to Madison Square Garden I couldn't believe that I was really there was like a dream, standing there and singing".

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen, who are devout Christians, also sent condolences to Graham's family. In 2001, he comforted his country and the world when he spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington, following the September 11 terrorist attacks. Evangel serves more than 2,100 students from all 50 states and numerous foreign countries, offering 65 undergraduate majors and 17 master's and doctoral degrees.

"He was a model for all of us to try to follow", Rabbi Murray Ezring of Temple Israel in Graham's native Charlotte toldWBTV.

North Carolinians who are mourning the late evangelist Billy Graham can come to the State Capitol in Raleigh to sign a book of condolences in the coming days.

Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades long before it became fashionable. In the South especially this was a risky thing to do in the 50s. When I am in town I watch one or two every week and even though his hairstyles and clothes and glasses may date the presentations, the lessons themselves are purely Biblical, straight from the Word of God, and though the illustrations may also be a bit dated, the premises upon which he preaches are as true today as in 1959, or 1976 or 2002 or whenever they were recorded.

But in 1934, that changed. I look forward to death, with great anticipation.

Westbound drivers on Woodlawn Road/Billy Graham Parkway will be detoured left onto South Tryon Street, turning right on Tyvola Road and then back to Billy Graham Parkway. In many ways, I think he made up for that lost time as he got older and made special efforts to enjoy his family. including his 19 grandchildren.

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"There's that ancient word to the wise that our present generation might do well to heed: 'Do not speak ill of the dead, ' " Hartropp noted.

Former President Barack Obama said he was a guide to millions of Americans.

He launched his ministry in 1943 upon graduation from Wheaton. They were married for 64 years before Ruth's death in 2007. Cooper called Graham "without peer as an evangelist during his lifetime". Originally scheduled to run for three weeks, the "tent meetings" were extended for a total of eight weeks as hundreds of thousands of men, women and children gathered to hear Graham's messages.